Any tips, good strategies, warnings, recommendations or funny sessions? Please share!
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I’ve been playing Zamek (a.k.a. “The Castle”) with @smorkin. The plan is to get to at least 1000 plays of that game. It’s a 1x1000 challenge. Fun fun fun ♥
We don’t have as many games as most people in such communities have. 😀 I was on vacations last week, so we went through most of the games.
Played a game of Settlers of Catan, couple of games of Ticket to Ride, one game of Splendor, and some games of Monopoly Duel.
Just got Cities & Knights expansion for Catan, but that seems a bit more complicated for the kid, so haven’t stared that yet. Maybe after he has played a few more games of base Settlers of Catan.
Played all of these with wife and kids.
Those are super good games, ticket to ride is a fun family game! No shame in having a few games, I prefer playing them instead of a huge collection!
If you dont know it yet, but I think in particular for kids its great, check out Carcassonne! It also exists as a junior version but depending on the age I think the normal version is amazing even for kids!
Thanks!
We already have Carcassonne, and it’s one of our favourite! Don’t know why we didn’t play it last week 😀 (Offtopic, but if you play videogames, I am currently playing Carto, which uses Carcassonne’s gameplay, and adds further puzzles and story to it. Highly recommended!)
Other than those we also have Dominion, Lost Cities, Dungeon Mayhem and Point Salad. Though I have been thinking about getting my kid a bit into D&D. He loves video games, so I believe it should attract him. Just having trouble figuring out how to start, specially since my wife isn’t a big gamer, and I don’t know how she will feel about goblins and orcs.
How is Gloomhaven, for kids (and non-gamers adults)? Just read about it, and seem like a good first step (but an extensive one) into Dungeon Crawling, without going full D&D. Though that is just by reading few snippets, I haven’t even begun the research into it yet. So, I could be completely wrong about it.
Not counting Gloomhaven, Munchkin is next on my wishlist, but that too needs a little bit more research.
If you are not sure about gloomhaven get Jaws of the Lion. It’s easier to learn and get to the table than the big box. Not very story heavy and not many decisions, but might be a nice introduction to dungeon crawlers.
Thanks for the recommendation, going to check it out!
You have a nice collection!
I have not tried Carto but have been playing Dorfromantik on steam, which is like a hexagonal puzzle carcassonne! I love it!
Have not tried Gloomhaven yet, so I could not say.
So your kid plays Dominion? If so, Clank is a must! Its a dungeon crawling deckbuilder, its amazing!
Another option for DnD is to ask ChatGPT to DM for you, this way both of you can play. There is a bit of a learning curve to understand how to ask ChatGPT certain things but I think a lot of people already are using it for that. So there might be some tips to be found online!
My friends and I played Legends of Andor with the expansion where you are on a ship. It was very hard for us the first tries because alot of monster spawn at the beginning and we didn’t have the right tactic to fight all of them. Also we didn’t get the rules completely right which made things much harder for us. But we beat the first chapter and I don’t know if I wanna play again. It takes sooo long to play and to setup
Is this a coop game? I find many of those less entertaining. We love deckbuilders but Aeons End or Battle for Hogwarts are all a bit lackluster and often can be boring for the “healer” or similar dedicated support roles (at least in our group). The games are also often very mechanistic with lots of dependencies occurring in sequence.
Maybe spirit island and pandemic are better but I have not tried them
I played a few solo games, including Dustrunner and Gate, and I did a couple scenarios in Monster Expedition (in which I realized I had been under-improving my hunting camps in my previous games by not using all applicable dice). My girlfriend and I got in a couple games of Wingspan ala duet mode, which is always a satisfying way to spend post of an afternoon.
Also, I picked up the BG Stats app and have spent a fair amount of time entering any logged games I could scrounge up. I feel complete now.
Haha, I try to be less analytical in games, this app would destroy me and possibly the fun of the others I play with.
Its probably cool to optimize each game and I would even like to do it for some of them. But this only works well if the others can invest just as much into theory-crafting and data analysis otherwise I would just win most of my games and nobody would like to play anymore.
When I found by accident that chapel is the best card in Dominion and tried it out and won all games where there is a chapel it is now a banned card from the table :D
I see your concern there, and I’m in the same boat as far as not wanting to make games not fun. For me, the app is more of a way to keep track of what I’ve played, keeping high scores, and knowing what day of the week I sacrifice most of my time to board games on.
Thanks for that info about Dominion though. I’ll only abuse it a couple times. ;)
Chapel strats are fun, just never be shy to trash everything. You basically want to be down to Chapel+Silver+Copper at some point. From there, you just get another silver and buy your way out of poverty. With sentry or similar you can also try to trash the chapel once you do not need it anymore.
My gf refuses to “scoop” to my level and will rather try to stop the chapel strat instead of using it, too. After a couple of brutal games it got banned. But I am OK with that. I also enjoy other combinations and Chapels are maybe even a bit too easy.
Maybe its not a bad idea for highscores and the like, we sometimes wonder if this or that score was the highest ever. Will check it out, thanks for the tip!
Hmm… that’s an interesting strategy. We consider chapel to be one of the most useless card (unless there are Witches in the play), second only to Adventurer.
But then again, we are all very casual players. Would try this strategy next time we play.
